Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-03-26
shan Wo co FOR the Bonds9

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Mound Philupsburg, Arcade and
Plum townships, and the city Of Phil
lipsburg, 70 vote for the all ked Of
them By tic Chicago, Kansas & Nebras-
la Railroad. Let us re state some Of
those reasons and give some additional
cnes.
The total amount Of bonds asked for,
is $50, Geo, being Sl5,COC IN each town
ship except Phillipsburg township and
city, which are required TO vote s82.-
600. There viii be thirty-three miles
u road within the limits OF the county
II The road is assessed az $4,000 per
mile (Which is less than any trunk line
IS assessed in Kansas then there will
be added to the taxable property Of The
county the sum Of $50 600. The rate
OF taxation row in this county is four
and one half per cent, but we win sup
pose i. to be only four per cent, which
is a very safe estimate. That win put
j 10 our treasury, every year, the total
sum OF Sl3,2c0. The people will get
from the railroad IN taxes more money
Ia twenty years, than the bonds amount
TO- So in reality, theIa lroad does moi
cost the people anything. This is rea
son enough why the bonds should be
voted for and carried, but there are
many other good reasons.
The bonds are not FREQ git to the
Railroad Company. The law requires
the company TO issue to the respective
townships certificates Of stock in equal
amount, 70 the bonds voted While it
may be true that the stock will not be
worth 100 cents on the dollar, till the
road is fully finished still it is valua-
bic, and will from year TO year grow
more valuable as the road Itself ap-
prcciates in value.
Not only will the building Of this
great trunk railway add $3.50, 900 to the
taxable property Of the township
through which It passes, but It will be
the cause Of bringing into the county
hundreds Of thousands Of dollars worth
If property in the shape OF horses, cat
[ >, swine. farming Implements, lum-
b q. merchandise and other personal
property. The railroad will start q
great stream Of emigration toward us.
cur unimproved lands will speedily be
occupied and improved, trees will be
planted cut, houses will be erected ,
new towns viii spring up, and Phillips
county viii 90 well 70 the froat Of Kan
las counties. Everything that the far
iner raises will command a good price,
while his clothing, his groceries, his
lumber, his fuel, his farming nipple
Iaents, -everyth!Hg he has 10 buy-wIn
lee cheaper. The railroad will benefit
every body and as shown above, really
costs The tax-Pay CT nothing.
Some men, we understand, object to
voting for bonds con general princi-
pies :" having sort Of general objec-
lion to bonds, and DO not pretend 10
deny the force of our Argument above,
but care opposed 10 bonds because
they are" Now ali .sdllt, sane per
sons, ought 10 be aJls to assign somd
ason for their action in every trans
action in Afe. A mere unfounded, OBJ
jection without reason, is pure preju-
dice, ard IS discreditable TO any intelli-
gent person who entertains such preju-
dice without cause.
IL is claimed by some who are op-
pc ing the bonds that s'there is no use
voting for the bonds because the Rock
Island road will be built on the survey
cd line anyway" Now, as to that OBJ
lection, the HERALD admits such might
be the case, but We do not believe it
will be in this instance. This route
was not The route first contemplated by
the Rock Island, as stated in our paper
Ct last week. The road is graded to
Nelson, Nuckolls county, Nebraska,
and surveyed from that point to Red
Cloud and up the Republican valley.
The people Of Hardy, Neb., and OF
MankatO, Jewell county, prevailed on
The company to survey from Hebron,
thence to Hardy thence to Mankato
and thence westward through Smith
and Phillips county. They found It a
very difficult route, especially from
Hardy to Manka.o. The company,
however, proposed to come into north
west Kansas on the line above mention
ed for SIll,OOO in Jewell county S05 -
900 in Smith, and S92. 900 in Phillips.
Let no citizen Of these three counties
deceive himself with the mistaken idea
that We can secure that great railway
Tor nc. hing. Railroads are not built
that way. We win not get great bene-
fits by "snubbing' the Rock Island
Company and yodag down the bonds.
The HERALD is very sorry to learn that
there are parties in the southeastern
part of the county who axe using all the
Influence they can exert, to defeat the
bonds IN Plum township. This road
will not necessarily injurs. Kirwin, The
writer who has recently coma to this
county, entertains no un.riendly feeling
toward any other town in Phillips
county, neither does his business asso-
eiate. Looking over the situation with
out prejudice, free entirely from al
bias, We can most eonseientiously sag,
that this proposed road viii be Of in-
ehculable benefit to the entire county
Including the good town Of .-irwin, but
is win especially benefit the townships
through which il VIII run, and we can
faithfully say further, that we have no
hope whatever 81 securing The road I'M